On or off the grid ?

We are trying to decide which is better. This cabin will never (well, not by us anyway), be a primary residence. We will stay in it on weekends and for a week at a time during haying season. That is why it will be small. It will be 20ft x 30 ft. Getting electrical run will cost about $5000 but going off the grid would be about the same. But then you have to get propane fridge and stove etc, or pay electricity bills. And would I have to double wire the house? I'm the one doing the electrical and plumbing and stuff like that, and since we are going to be hiding the wires inside the logs I would prefer not to have to re wire at a later date. Questions, questions. Plus I have to figure out how to make a spiral staircase. I haven't been able to find plans anywhere. Yes, I can find manufacturers of them but I want to make my own. Both because it would be fun and to save money. I'm big on saving money. It must be the Scott in me. I want cheap but not cheap if you know what I mean.

My First Post

This is my first post in my first ever blog. My huband, Father in law and I are building a log cabin and I wanted to be able to keep a record of it, and maybe see if there are others out there doing the same thing. I will add pictures, once I figure out how to do that.
We found a beautiful place to put the cabin, on top of a hill with great views of the surrounding farmland. Unfortunately my DH and I disagree on which is the best view. He wants to look at his parents house and I want to look across the feilds.
We have a farm and we are using the wood off the farm, so my FIL is cutting down the trees. He used to be a lumberjack so he knows what he is doing. My job on the weekend was to skid out the trees he had cut.
To those who don't know what skidding is, you attach the cut and limbed log to a chain and then attach the chain to a device called a whipple tree (it looks like a metal bar) which in turn is attached to the horse's harness. You then steer the horse out of the bush and the horse drags the log behind him. Don't feel sorry for the horse, he is huge! He is 7 feet tall at the shoulder and has a giant head. He is a Belgian, so he likes working in the bush.
I have never worked with a horse before so this was all a new experience for me. But I prevailed. I had to jump over the logs a few times when I realized I was on the wrong side and the log was coming over to squish me. A couple of times I had to let go of the reins when there was a tree in front of me and nowhere to go but once the horse gets the log out of the bush he stops.
We have 10 trees, we need 200. This is going to be a lot of work!