OK. Thanks, Compiles now and have a blinking LED. Back to the timing... Sorry I am so dense with this.

How do I go about setting the timer for prescale of 1 and a peload of 21537

I have been looking at previous posts and the datasheet for the 16f887, but not really sure what I need to do.

I assume I have to set T1CON and perhaps OPTION_REG

Also would I be better off using Timer2 since its 8bit (would it be less resources, etc?). As the timer is tripping along, there is no issue with timing of other things like serial commands, I2C timing, etc?