Ok Demon,

You got me thinking and as I did some more measuring I found that, with the 10K R, I had only 2 volts to the PIC. Which is ok but mabie a bit low. So I switched out the resistor to a 4.7 K and now I have 3.95V to the PIC and the current draw is 1.7ma (0.0017Amps)

I used one of these... http://www.eevblog.com/projects/ucurrent/
to measure the current

The zener is probably still not working too hard to control the voltage yet (not sure how sharp the zener voltage point is)

Any way I just wanted a simple way to power this ckt from the 12 to 15 Volt source battery.