Tired

This is an eggplant flower. The plant has flowered, but no baby eggplants. I am sad about that. My summer plants are tired (at least the tomato and cucumber that produced magnificently earlier in the summer seem to be), and I am,  too. Spent the day scrubbing dust and grime off surfaces in the culture rooms, which should be kept painstakingly clean. Even the hood in which we store pre-autoclaved materials was filthy. No wonder I'm wheezing a bit (wore a mask for the really nasty bits). Tossed a cucumber plant into compost this afternoon. Clearing space to plant anew for fall. Hope it works.