Got up my boat and housed it, ice having formed about it.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, December 2, 1854
See December 2, 1852 ("I do not remember when I have taken a sail or a row on the river in December before.”); December 2, 1856 ("Got in my boat, which before I had got out and turned up on the bank.") See also November 26, 1857 ("Got my boat up this afternoon . . . One end had frozen in.”); November 26, 1858 ("Got in boat on account of Reynolds’s new fence going up (earlier than usual”); November 29, 1860 ("Get up my boat, 7 a. m. Thin ice of the night is floating down the river.”); November 30, 1855 (“Got in my boat. River remained iced over all day.”); December 5, 1853 ("Got my boat in."); December 10, 1859 ("Get in my boat, in the snow. The bottom is coated with a glaze”); December 27, 1852 ("I took my new boat out") and A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Boat in. Boat out;
I love to have the river closed up for a season
and a pause put to my boating
to be obliged to get my boat in.
I shall launch it again in the spring
with so much more pleasure.
I love best to have each thing in its season only
and enjoy doing without it at all other times.
Henry Thoreau, December 5, 1856
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