Sweating copper

What the heck is going on here? Metal is smoking, I'm holding a blow-torch - can this possibly be good? Well truth is that Sean was good enough to teach me how to solder a joint for plumbing- also known as sweating copper. Sweating copper sounds pretty cool, I know & It's actually kinda fun too, except that one of the joints I soldered popped off

later when water pressure was applied - whoops. Lucky for me Sean kinda laughed and then fixed it right up.
We've decided that we will be our own plumbers on the house - which means you can probably look forward to more pictures of us with smoking pipes in the future.