The disappearing iPhone grocery-list

“Milk, grape-juice, bread, potato, bananas, pear, peach, juice, butter, Pedigree, hotdogs, strawberries, Jet Dry, flaxseed meal, yogurt, corn.”
Yrs Trly keeps his grocery-lists in iPhone “notes.” A capital idea, since I always have my iPhone in my pocket. I can update as I run out.
Gotta be careful. My grocery-list can be totally deleted by breathing on the screen.
I keep five lists. Most groceries are Mighty Weggers, my Wegmans in Canandaigua. I also have a list for “Mighty Tops,” another Canandaigua supermarket, plus “Funky Food Market”= Lori’s Natural Foods in Henrietta.
I also have a list for Canandaigua’s Petco, since I often need dog supplies. My fifth list is a supermarket in nearby Honeoye Falls, which I typically avoid since it has “consistent high prices.” $3.49 for a Ghirardelli baking-bar? $1.79 at Weggers. Lori’s is “Whole Paycheck Foods.”
The other night I set about adding to my Weggers list. What happened? No Weggers list. Another errant screen brush; at least 25 items were on that list.
No way am I gonna remember all the items on that list, and some were important.
Wondrous technology = Apple triumphs again!
I went to my “Notes” screen; it had a “Notes on my iPhone,” and “Notes in iCloud.” iCloud had “recently deleted,” so I tried that. Viola! There was my Weggers list. I erroneously delete a list, and it gets clouded?
Maybe I gotta shop from my iCloud list and start anew on my iPhone.
Okay, how do I copy/paste my iCloud list back into “Notes on my iPhone?” Engage “try it and see what happens.” I tried various icons. One fired up a colored pencil I’ll never use. But one apparently moved my iCloud Weggers list back into “Notes on my iPhone;” this wasn’t the computer copy/paste I’m used to.
I’m supposed to be thrilled? My 25-item list is back in my iPhone, but I have no idea how it got there.
I used to get this from ‘Pyooter-Guru at the Mighty Mezz. “Got it back, didn-cha.” Hooray-hooray! I doubt I could repeat.

• “Canandaigua” is a small city nearby where I live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 14 miles away.
• The “Mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over 12 years ago. Best job I ever had — I was employed there almost 10 years — over 11 if you count my time as a post-stroke unpaid intern. (I had a heart-defect caused stroke October 26th, 1993, from which I recovered fairly well. That defect was repaired.)