The average price of a Thanksgiving dinner is down this year. That may be why those who produce turkeys and other holiday staples are seeing better-than-average business right now.

It's almost Thanksgiving, and Houstonians have yet this year to enjoy much of the so-called weather phenomenon known as "fall." This crisp, elusive season—sandwiched between "never-ending summer" and "false winter"—has poked through in bits and spurts over the last two weeks in Southeast Texas,