Timers are very interesting and essential part of ZPuino ,consider including your blinking sketch or any timely mannered code in a function which runs on its own depending if it is time or not ,Timers are also essential for generating PWM which are essential for controlling motors speeds or dimming an LED.
ZPuino has :
please refer to ZPuino timer section for more details
You control the timers by writing directly to its registers as referred in the link above or if you are not familiar with such operation you can simply use the functions developed by Alvaro.