Jack be quick. Jack jump over the candlestick.

A tortoise doesn’t really seem the right posterboy for nimbleness. However, our boys had a pet tortoise when we lived in Zimbabwe, called Jack. His fullname was Jack, the Ripper – due to the way he would demolish a lettuce leaf when he was hungry. And we often encouraged him to move a bit quicker with the nursery rhyme. Maybe too often because he became very nimble and disappeared out of our garden surrounded by high brick walls and full wooden gates.

The winter before Jack had hibernated in a heap of leaves, slowly turning into compost (the leaves, not Jack). We checked all possible hiding places over and over again but he definitely had left the building garden. Maybe he did jump?

For FOWC with Fandango: Nimble and Ragtag Daily Prompt: Hibernation

……………………………………….